The Anthropologists’ Action Workshops are interactive, participatory workshop using theatre techniques to explore a local issue or challenge.

Community members, neighborhood residents, advocates, and theatre artists will join forces for a theatrical brainstorming facilitated by The Anthropologists, with the aim of exploring a local issue or challenge in a multi-faceted way.  Past topics have included food access and the environment.  

Participants are invited to participate through:

1. 1.Dynamic conversation and investigation
   

2. 2.Improvised exploration of a specific “encounter” or scenario.
   

3. 3.Creative writing on the given theme
   

4. 4.    Expressive movement
   

ACTION WORKSHOP: Food Issues - Yesterday & Today

August 2010

Hosted by the Eileen Fisher Leadership Institute

Featuring an excerpt of Give Us Bread

ACTION WORKSHOP: Food Access in Great Barrington, MA

August 2010 * Admission FREE

Hosted by the Berkshire Fringe (Great Barrington, MA)

ACTION WORKSHOP: Environment on the Lower East Side

June 2010 * Admission FREE

Co-hosted by the New York Restoration Project and the Educational Alliance
       

For more information, contact melissa@theanthropologists.org